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Onkyo TX-NR906: Darth Vader endorses this AV receiver

Crave The Death Star's corporate network can also be accommodated. He may enjoy killing the innocent, blowing up planets and generally keeping a stranglehold on those around him, but that doesn't mean old Darth Vader doesn't like to kick back, relax and...

Tags: onkyo, planets, hd, inputs

3 October 2008, 12:01

From IFA with love: Crave goes wild in Berlin

Crave A stick of rock James Bond uses to beat a henchman to death, before quipping, "Looks like I rocked his world. It's always the same: you wait ages for the world's first 200Hz TV and then two come along at once.

3 September 2008, 11:34

Devolo dLAN 200 AVeasy Starter Kit: HomePlug for dummies

Crave Don't worry, the risk of death is greatly reduced by using an expertly made piece of HomePlug equipment. Wi-Fi is good for some things, but when it comes to big-bandwidth applications such as streaming video it really doesn't cut the mustard.

Tags: networking, wi fi, pack, fi

21 August 2008, 12:11

Crave Podcast 97: Windows is dead!

Crave In this episode, he'll help us out with issues like the imminent death of Microsoft Windows. Yes, we said death. We're 97 episodes deep, podcast fans! Rory Reid's in charge again, alongside his Man Friday Ian Morris, his Woman Thursday Kate...

Tags: microsoft windows, death, gamespot uk, detect

8 August 2008, 11:00

Photos: Hands-on with the iRiver Spinn

Crave We're going to have a full review for you as soon as we've tested the player to death and translated our findings from brainwaves to letters. This is one of the most hotly anticipated MP3 players of the year, and has been since the world got its...

7 August 2008, 17:46

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson W902

Crave Of course that 5-megapixel camera is going to be a big selling point unless sound quality is stunning -- and trust us, we'll be testing it to death. If last month's posts about the new Sony Ericsson W902 and W595 Walkman phones had you excited...

4 August 2008, 12:31

Vauxhall Insignia: The car that can see

Crave The camera is able to detect painted lane markings on the road and if the Insignia veers left or right into another lane without the driver indicating, the car's internal speakers will emit a beep to warn you you of your impending death or sheer...

25 July 2008, 12:21

Creative Zen X-Fi: MP3 player with wireless streaming

Crave Before heading to the beach, you should check out Creative's new Wi-Fi enabled media player -- the Zen X-Fi, so-called because it incorporates Creative's X-Fi audio technology, which helps 128Kbps MP3s sound less like the howling death growl of a...

Tags: creative, car, wi fi, fi

11 July 2008, 10:43

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson W760i

Crave After having just checked out the Motorola Rokr E8 and Sony Ericsson W350i, we were ready for something that went up to 11, something that had guts, something that could be used to beat Amy Winehouse to death.

30 June 2008, 12:08

Onkyo X-NX10A: Giving us that down-low tickle

Crave When we heard Onkyo was going to launch a hard disk-based hi-fi, we were in the middle of writing the Daily Mail a strongly worded letter explaining that if it really wants to hear something worth linking to suicide cults and death, it should...

Tags: onkyo, hard disk, japanese, hard drive

4 June 2008, 11:03

BenQ V2400W: World's thinnest 24-incher

Crave It's not your typical skinny-but-attractive-harbinger-of-airborne-death, though. People are stupid sometimes. They'll spend crazy money on PCs that are way faster than they need, and buy a rubbish display.

Tags: benq, point, inch, lcd

28 May 2008, 15:12

Hands-on with the Asus EN9800 GX2: Faster than death

Crave Want twin graphics cards, but your motherboard only has one PCI Express slot? We think we may have found the solution. We've just been playing with the Asus EN9800 GX2, a graphics adaptor that combines two separate graphics processing units in a...

Tags: core, anti, frames, graphics

4 April 2008, 12:36

Car Tech: Ford Focus 'Facelift' and the haunted sat-nav

Crave There are three certainties in this world: death, taxes and owning a Ford Focus hatchback. Britain's perennial bestseller has quietly been impressing critics since its 1998 debut, but even its staunchest supporters admit it's started to show its age.

25 March 2008, 16:33

Top ten obsolete ports

Crave For some reason, despite the incredibly shaky start USB had -- we can surely all remember the near certainty that plugging in anything in the early days of USB 1.1 would result in either a blue screen of death or some other virtual plume of smoke...

25 March 2008, 11:02

Super phones: Nokia N96 vs Samsung G810 vs Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 vs LG KF700

Crave They're so advanced today they laugh in the face of stick men and crush them to death with their multitude of multimedia weaponry -- it's hardly a fair fight. There was a time when the best thing your phone could do was send black and white...

20 March 2008, 15:17